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Henrik Skovgaard Nielsen Has Died
Henrik Skovgaard Nielsen was born in 1943 and died unexpectedly on July 1st 2010. Denmark and Europe have lost an extremely qualified and gifted historian. He graduated as MA in 1969 in history and English and immediately after he was involved in improving the pedagogical education of candidates in Denmark. From 1971-1979 he was board member of the Danish HTA. In 1986 he was appointed chairman by the Danish Ministry of Education of the committee preparing a reform of the history teaching. During 1988-2003 he was appointed Chief National History Adviser by the same ministry and he became known by the entire Danish and international history teaching community as the engaged historian who always had time to give qualified answers to questions about history teaching and he was extremely popular. As national adviser he stayed in very close contact and cooperation with the Danish HTA. He continuously worked to promote the creation of history consciousness in the minds of the students advocating that, in order to understand the present you have to understand the past and thereby get ideas about the future.
Henrik was very active internationally and had a very big extended international network which highly appreciated his wise and modest personality and approach to history teaching. From the 1970ies he was deeply involved in the Council of Europe and its work to promote and improve history teaching in the former Eastern Europe and especially in the Balkans where he did an enormous work participating in seminars, workshops, and conferences. In 1982 he was one of the promoters of the Scandinavian Seminars on History Didactics which still has sessions every 3rd year and whose results have had extensive side effects on history teaching all over Europe. In 1992 he was one of the promoters when EUROCLIO was established. He did an overwhelming work to promote history teaching in South Africa and in recent years he was appointed member of the Danish Steering Committee for UNESCO’s Associated Schools Project and here he was especially interested in the Transatlantic Slave Trade seeing opportunities to link history cooperation and learn from each other between Europe – Africa – the Americas.
During his entire career Henrik published a number of textbooks e.g. on Imperialism, The cultural Meeting between Europe and the Americas, and Interculturality among others. He was always very active writing uncountable articles to the Danish HTA’s quarterly magazine and contributed with articles on history consciousness in the two books on history didactics published by the Danish HTA in 2005 and 2009 which were distributed to all the members of the organization. Apart from this, he was also extremely active participating in the public debate on history teaching and wrote innumerable articles to Danish papers, magazines, and websites – and always with one goal: wanting to improve history teaching.
In May 2010 he was appointed member of EUROCLIO’s Honorary Board.
In 2007 he retired as a teacher and was very glad to be able to spend more time with his family and his grandchildren although he continued to participate actively in the debate on history teaching and established a workshop on history didactics meeting every 3rd month.
Our thoughts and sympathy go to his family. European history teaching has lost one of its giants.
Peder Wiben
EUROCLIO Board member
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Between the 6th and 7th of July, authors and experts from all over Georgia convened in Bazaleti Lake just outside of Tbilisi for the final authors and experts workshop within the framework of the EUROCLIO/Matra project Tolerance Building Through History Education. International experts Thomas Sherlock (Professor of Political Science at the West Point Military Academy, USA) Yulia Kushnereva (Former project coordinator for the EUROCLIO/Matra project Mosaics of Culture, Russia) and Iryna Kostyuk (former EUROCLIO project coordinator for the EUROCLIO/Matra project in the Ukraine (New Times, New History) joined over 70 history educators over the days to share their knowledge and expertise with EUROCLIO’s Georgian colleagues. The last workshop was the final opportunity for worksheet peer-to-peer review before the editing process. Iryna Kostyuk and Yulia Kushnereva, experts from former EUROCLIO projects monitored the process and presented their expert comments and feedback on the worksheets and classroom ideas on display.For more details select 'Read More' or download the full report 
On the 5th of July at Ivane Javakhishvili State University in Tbilisi, the Georgian Association of History Educators in conjunction with EUROCLIO hosted its first annual meeting with over 150 participants from all regions of Georgia. ‘The event was a huge success, with trainings from local and international experts, democratic elections for a new president of GAHE, Regional branch activity presentations from most regions of Georgia and the ratification of new statutes to ensure sustainability and democratic procedures are at the core of the association’s legal documents. Patrick Barker, EUROCLIO project manager presented the work of EUROCLIO as an active transnational civil society organization, and its growth since 1993 as an example of civil participation in European history education. Thomas Sherlock (Professor of Political Science at the West Point Military Academy, USA) presented a thought-provoking insight into historical memory from the perspective of countries dealing with difficult pasts; tailored to the current situation in Georgia and the recent events and debates in the media regarding the removal of the Stalin statue in Gori.A Full report is available
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A dedicated group of history educators from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine worked very hard together in the hospitable surroundings of the Joseph Karolyi Castle in Fehervarcsurgo, in Hungary. Within the parameters of the EUROCLIO Project “Connecting Central Europe through Local History” supported by the International Visegrad Fund, they discussed how a wide variety of local source materials could be tuned into engaging an educational website. With the trans-border topics: celebrations, monuments, and public spaces, the group is connecting small history with big history by relating them to the changing borders after 1945. The collaborative work led to an engaging thinking process where all understood how new educational tools as websites influences the way we want to teach about the past. The group will finalize their work during the summer holidays and after September 1st 2010 the results of this new example of practical EUROCLIO trans-border cooperation will be available on the Running Projects
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